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Quality in the drive to world-class manufacturing - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The implementation of total quality management as the first step to world class manufacturing. MORE INFO: Quality in the drive to world-class manufacturing The implementation of total quality management as the first step to world class manufacturing. PUBLISHER: Institute o... read article... |
It must be quality and materials management - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Examines the effects of growing quality pressures from the customer on the Materials Manager in the 1990s. MORE INFO: It must be quality and materials management Examines the effects of growing quality pressures from the customer on the Materials Manager in the 1990s. PUBL... read article... |
An objective look at Total Quality Management - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Defines Total Quality Management (TQM) and then looks at it in connection with the design of a service. MORE INFO: An objective look at Total Quality Management Defines Total Quality Management (TQM) and then looks at it in connection with the design of a service. PUBLISHE... read article... |
Total Quality Management/Continuous Improvement - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The thesis of this article is that TQM is not only cost-effective but also revenue producing and essential to the survival and growth of any organisation. MORE INFO: Total Quality Management/Continuous Improvement The thesis of this article is that TQM is not only cost-effect... read article... |
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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: This series of four articles traces the history of manufacturing control systems; showing where we went wrong; what we are still doing wrong; and what companies, who have relied heavily on systems solutions, can do to regain their competitiveness. Part 4 looks at World Class Man... read article... |
Quality improvement using Poka-Yoke - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: This article discusses how a major manufacturing organisation, introduced and developed poka-yoke with the objective of reducing defects and ultimately improving product quality. MORE INFO: Quality improvement using Poka-Yoke This article discusses how a major manufacturing o... read article... |
Supplier certification: a starting point for busines improvement - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Reviews supplier certification and answers some basic questions about planning and implementing successful supplier certification programmes. MORE INFO: Supplier certification: a starting point for busines improvement Reviews supplier certification and answers some basic ques... read article... |
Letters - Using the balanced scorecard to measure the supervisor - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: As an assessment of quality, process and environmental management systems I was interested in the article by Gordon and Gordon in the November MORE INFO: Letters - Using the balanced scorecard to measure the supervisor As an assessment of quality, process and environmenta... read article... |
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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: By simply understanding the level of service quality that customers expect and the effects it may have on your business is an important element of business today. MORE INFO: Improving Service Quality: can this be achieved by understanding customer perceptions and expectations?... read article... |
Supplier partnering - an essential enabler for suppy chain improvement - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Looks at the EQFM Excellence Model and how supplier partnering can improve management of the supply chain. MORE INFO: Supplier partnering - an essential enabler for suppy chain improvement Looks at the EQFM Excellence Model and how supplier partnering can improve management o... read article... |
Total Productive Maintenance - is it time to move on? - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Examines the origins of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and discusses whether it is now time to move on to widen TPM to embrace all aspects of the business. MORE INFO: Total Productive Maintenance - is it time to move on? Examines the origins of Total Productive Maintenanc... read article... |
On your marks, get set and go for a leaner operation - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: An overview of the lean operation concept and guidance on how businesses can achieve leaner operations MORE INFO: On your marks, get set and go for a leaner operation An overview of the lean operation concept and guidance on how businesses can achieve leaner operations PUBL... read article... |
Letter: Performance Measurement Systems - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Only those areas which are important to the business need to be measured; that is the factors critical for the success of the business. It is usually the customer or the market that defines these. How successful the company is in those areas is judged by how well it performs in ... read article... |
Automatic vision inspection - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: An increasing number of UK manufacturers are using automatic vision inspection systems on their production lines, helping them to improve product quality and reduce production costs... Vision systems are effectively computers with eyes, they will inspect products as they are bei... read article... |
Editorial: the new century - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The start of a new century (and a new millennium) is a good time to look further ahead, and at a wider range of activities than we might normally do... MORE INFO: Editorial: the new century The start of a new century (and a new millennium) is a good time to look further ahead... read article... |
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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: This new course introduces the concept of quality and its expected benefits and then moves on to examine how today's modern concepts of total quality management have developed from Quality Control (QC), through Quality Assurance (QA) and Total Quality Control (TQC)... MORE INF... read article... |
Whose turn with the barrel? A tale of non-integrated management - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: When I was out in the Far East looking at an ISO9001 management system at a polyurethane foaming factory I came upon three very jovial workers mixing some TDI (toluene di-isocyanate), which is toxic to a few parts in a million, in open barrels with broom handles, and with very l... read article... |
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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Bullwhip costs money, wastes resources, and loses customers. So drawing on a basis of analytical, simulation and experiential techniques, the authors’ present four material flow principles which can be recommended as strategies to reduce the bullwhip effect... MORE INFO: Pract... read article... |
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: TPM has been shown to increase worker productivity by 60% and raise overall output by 85% is put under the spotlight at a Manufacturing Masterclass arranged by Manchester's Manufacturing Institute... MORE INFO: Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) TPM has been shown to increase... read article... |
That'll do - Won't do - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: How often do we hear ‘that’ll do’? Far too often, and this attitude will always have a direct or knock-on effect to the customer. In this short article I mention various reasons why we upset our customers some controversial but all valid in today’s work environment... MORE INF... read article... |
Management Quality And Manufacturing Excellence - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: This article explores elements of manufacturing excellence and determinants of managerial quality that are influencing manufacturing effectiveness... MORE INFO: Management Quality And Manufacturing Excellence This article explores elements of manufacturing excellence and dete... read article... |
Functional Safety First Certification Service - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Sira Certification Service has become the first body to be accredited to certify the functional safety capability of organisations against IEC 61508 using the CASS scheme (Conformity Assessment of Safety-Related Systems) as the vehicle. MORE INFO: Functional Safety First Certi... read article... |
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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Standards exist for quality management (ISO9000) and environmental management (ISO14000), and there is a model for Business Excellence. But until very recently, there was no standard r reference model for performance measurement. MORE INFO: Integrated Performance Measurement S... read article... |
Visit to Varian Medical Systems - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Twenty eight Members of the Institute in the London and Southern Branch areas attended a visit to Varian Medical Systems in Crawley, Sussex on the 21st November 2001. MORE INFO: Visit to Varian Medical Systems Twenty eight Members of the Institute in the London and Southern B... read article... |
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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Standards exist for quality management (ISO9000) and environmental management (ISO14000), and there is a model for Business Excellence. But, until very recently, there was no standard or reference model for performance measurement. MORE INFO: Integrated Performance Measurement... read article... |
XYZ Defect Control: A Case Study from NSK Europe - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: NSK Bearings, County Durham, produces rolling bearings, vital features in the machines of modern society from cars to computer disc drives.In themselves bearings may look like fairly unexciting lumps of metal, but their accuracy (to 10ths of microns) reveals the true challenge o... read article... |
The Manufacturing Manager - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: This is a very substantial hardback book of nearly 940 pages and priced at £95. MORE INFO: The Manufacturing Manager This is a very substantial hardback book of nearly 940 pages and priced at £95. It has twenty chapters relating to important subjects for managers in industry... read article... |
Hounsfield Provides Quality Service - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Hounsfield Test Equipment, has now. become one of the first companies in the UK to achieve ISO 17025 accreditation for the operating procedures of its testing and calibration services. MORE INFO: Hounsfield Provides Quality Service Hounsfield Test Equipment, has now. become o... read article... |
Managing Creativity - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The ability of an organisation to create new products and innovate new processes is an essential skill providing a sustainable form of competitive advantage from both UK and overseas competitors. MORE INFO: Managing Creativity The ability of an organisation to create new prod... read article... |
Book review: Managing Quality : Managerial and Critical Perspectives - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Author Mihaela Keleman; Publisher Sage Publications, 2003; Price Paperback £21.99 (Hardback £70.00). This book takes a rather different and more interesting journey through the subject area of quality. MORE INFO: Book review: Managing Quality : Managerial and Criti... read article... |
Branch news: East Anglia/Thames Valley Branch - Competitive Space - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Derek Thomason (General Manager, Unipart Solutions Practice) introduced the evening with the quote “What is the difference between a problem and an excuse? Timing”, arguing that companies often don’t make decisions well enough in advance. He illustrated his con... read article... |
Institute news : Chairman’s Message - Quality management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: There’s a Chinese proverb that has stayed with me for many years – ‘may you live in interesting times’. As with most Chinese proverbs it is a double edged sword: interesting in this context is interpreted as not boring, but challenging; interesting in the... read article... |
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